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by dventimi 1y ago
correction: "OWING to their colorful...names" not "owning to their colorful...names"
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by dventimi 1y ago
"There are- things like flat or hollow earth, antivax and HIV deniers, homeopaths etc." That's a fair point. It's just my perception that those things don't tend to be taken very seriously by people commenting on
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by dventimi 1y ago
FWIW (which is not much), I was an astrophysicist whose research was Dark Energy, though I arrogate to myself no authority on this topic as frankly a lot of knowledge I used to possess on the topic has been replaced by knowledge of tedious
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by dventimi 1y ago
What massive gaps?
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by dventimi 1y ago
There seems to me to be a real cottage industry in proposing alternatives to Dark Matter and Dark Energy. I wonder why that might be. Why isn't there as much interest in alternatives to, say, Plate Tectonics or the Germ Theory?
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by dventimi 1y ago
"America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back" "America" doesn't underestimate or overestimate things. People do. So which American people underestimate the difficulty of bringing manuf
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by dventimi 1y ago
This is what the neo-liberal economic program has been doing all my life. "Free-trade" and globalization just mean that companies deploy lobbyists to DC and state houses to write legislation that picks winners and losers, erect b
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by dventimi 2y ago
Every major city in America is America's internet tech hub and has the highest property values in America? "Every major city in America" includes San Francisco, but it also includes Detroit. You want to think about that aga
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by dventimi 2y ago
This is just neoliberalism and it doesn't surprise me given the pedigree of the people involved. The author Laura Foote went to Georgetown Day, a DC private school (2025 tuition ~$50k/year) that counts the Obama daughters among i
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by dventimi 2y ago
I can't agree with this. I've also lived in SF for the last 30 years and by my lights a simpler, more effective policy would be to roll up the red carpet that was rolled out to tech companies. I don't consider the problem t
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by dventimi 2y ago
You'll get at least one up-vote from me. Meanwhile, "time is a flat circle" and "all of this has happened before." "Overly restrictive rules (zoning) and elaborate process (permitting and planning) create chr
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by dventimi 2y ago
I don't. Nine dollars per month for an individual? No thanks. Charge what you like. It's your right to do that, but as a hobbyist there's no chance I'm buying.
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by dventimi 2y ago
I'm having a hard time following you. All I'm saying is, I believe that all other things being equal, a more simple architecture with fewer tiers, layers, network servers, and moving parts will tend to require fewer people than a
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by dventimi 2y ago
"So, can we agree on these architectural principals, except in edge cases: 1. A team must be in control of its own destiny... 2. Any communication between teams must be done by... an interface such that changes between teams are m
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by dventimi 2y ago
Likewise, here's a snippet from what it wrote about the gender imbalance. Let’s be clear: no single piece of hardware "caused" the gender gap in tech. But the Apple II symbolizes a turning point — when computing left institu
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by dventimi 2y ago
If I write those articles, I admit I will have used ChatGPT to help me do the research. After a lot of background work, here's a snippet from what it wrote insofar as the Apple II relates to ORMs: "So yes—tongue firmly in cheek—
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by dventimi 2y ago
Now, how do you explain to that executive that they will not get that feature in 3 months but rather in 5 years I have no idea, but I don't worry about it because I haven't been persuaded that will happen. You have turned 20 te
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by dventimi 2y ago
"How do you manage 100 people in a monolith?" Assign the monolith to 5 of them then find something productive for the other 95 people to do.
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by dventimi 2y ago
"relational concepts are sneered at" Someday I will write that blog article about how the Apple II computer is responsible for ORMs and the gender imbalance in software.
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by dventimi 2y ago
What I remember is that there were social reasons, market reasons, and technical reasons that MTS didn't pan out. First, Microsoft was out-of-fashion in startup culture. Second, the exploding internet boom had little demand for distr
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by dventimi 2y ago
That's 1 to 1.5 tiers too many: https://docs.postgrest.org/en/v12/how-tos/providing-html-con...
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by dventimi 2y ago
"ETA: one of the groups that was motivated was MS: use SQL Server + SP ; then COM in the Logic layer and then ASP in the UI." I remember SQL Server and its Stored Procedures having a brief period of popularity because Visual Bas
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by dventimi 2y ago
If the claim is that Martin reported on, summarized, and put a name to a pattern that had been in use for some time, I would grant that, though 2002 seems very late to the party to me. I vividly remember "3-tier architecture" and
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by dventimi 2y ago
"In the beginning (that is, the 90’s), developers created the three-tier application. Per Martin Fowler, these tiers were the data source tier, managing persistent data, the domain tier, implementing the application’s primary business
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by dventimi 2y ago
In a debate tactic I've seen a million times you committed the "begging the question" fallacy, so I drew attention to it. If you don't like it then--what were the words you used?--oh right, "I honestly don't k
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by dventimi 2y ago
I never wanted to argue with you at all. You replied to me, not the other way around. Also, it would be impossible for you to "help [me] any further " because, despite your bid for self-flattery, you haven't "helped&q
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by dventimi 2y ago
>> hand one to zozbot234 then > No Then hand one to yourself. > They are saying that there is no relationship to wealth by billionaires and helping "the average American," only that they can get rich by creating v
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by dventimi 2y ago
> You are reading universality where that was not implied whatsoever I'm not persuaded you're in a position to know what zozbot234 implied. > where are you getting the idea that that relates to the American people at larg
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by dventimi 2y ago
zozbot234, why do you say that Elon got rich by creating goods and services for other people? What I mean is, what do you expect your readers to infer from this, or what do you hope us to conclude from it?
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by dventimi 2y ago
> the person above said "Elon got rich by creating goods and services for other people," That's not all they said. They also said, "such as EV cars, or low-cost space launches. It's a wash. Oh wait, actually

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